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Government wins string of votes to restore elements of controversial borders and nationality bill removed by Lords

It takes 90 minutes to cross the Channel by boat. It took P&O Ferries far less time to sack 800 employees — without warning — over Zoom. Like many in the transport sector, P&O was hit hard by pandemic restrictions and travel bans.

Trade union Nautilus International said sailing ships across the Channel is ‘like walking across a six-lane motorway at rush hour’.

The Home Office has long collected statistics on irregular migration to the UK, but it has never published them officially until now. The statistics, first published in February 2022, are on detected instances of people entering the UK without immigration permission, such as on small boats, stowing away in vehicles…

The UK authorities intercepted 405 people in 12 boats on Tuesday, while the French stopped another 538 people in 11 boats.

Migrants including several children brought to a Dungeness beach by RNLI.

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Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration Tom Pursglove said the rise in dangerous Channel crossings is ‘unacceptable’.

Those who arrived at Dover on Friday are the latest of more than 1,500 people to have made the crossing this year.

The ship has been suspected of belonging to a firm targeted by EU sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine